In past years, computer game designers have tried to increase player engagement by improving the believability of characters and environment. Today, the focus is shifting toward im...
Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, Whan Woong Kim, Darshak P...
The automatic recognition of user’s communicative style within a spoken dialog system framework, including the affective aspects, has received increased attention in the past f...
Serdar Yildirim, Shrikanth Narayanan, Alexandros P...
Games are increasingly being used as educational tools, in part because they are presumed to enhance student motivation. We look at student motivation in games from the viewpoint o...
Amy Ogan, Vincent Aleven, Julia Kim, Christopher J...
What happens when the domains of HCI design and money intersect? This paper presents analyses from an ethnographic study of virtual currency use in China to discuss implications f...
The goal of this research is to lay the foundations for a formal theory , that abstracts from the procedural and interactive aspects involved in the generation of dramatic content....